Glossary

Account on Kaspersky Business Hub

An account that you must have to configure Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 by, for example, adding and removing user accounts, and configuring security profiles (security policies). This account lets you use the My Kaspersky service. You create this account when you start using Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365.

Activating the application

Switching the application to fully functional mode. The application is activated by the user through submitting an activation code for a commercial license in the application interface.

Activation code

A code that you receive when purchasing a license for Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365. This code is required for activation of the application.

The activation code is a unique sequence of twenty letters and numbers in the format XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX.

Anti-spam databases

Databases that contain information about unsolicited mass email mailings known to Kaspersky as of when the anti-spam databases are released. Entries in anti-spam databases allow the signs of such mailings to be detected in scanned objects. Anti-spam databases are created and regularly updated by Kaspersky specialists.

Anti-virus databases

Databases that contain information about computer security threats known to Kaspersky as of when the anti-virus databases are released. Entries in anti-virus databases allow malicious code to be detected in scanned objects. Anti-virus databases are created and regularly updated by Kaspersky specialists.

Database of malicious web addresses

Database that contains a list of web addresses whose content may be considered to be dangerous. The database is created and regularly updated by Kaspersky specialists.

Database of phishing web addresses

Database that contains a list of web addresses which have been defined as phishing web addresses by Kaspersky specialists. The database is created and regularly updated by Kaspersky specialists.

File mask

Representation of a file name using wildcards. The standard wildcards used in file masks are * and ?, where * represents any number of any characters and ? stands for any single character.

Heuristic analyzer

Technology for detecting threats about which information has not yet been added to Kaspersky databases. The heuristic analyzer detects objects whose behavior in the operating system may pose a security threat. In Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365, objects detected by the heuristic analyzer are considered to be infected. For example, an object may be considered to be infected if it contains sequences of commands that are typical of malicious objects (open file, write to file).

Kaspersky Business Hub

Online resource for registering companies to use the Kaspersky software solution intended for centralized management and protection of the computers and mobile devices of employees of the registered companies.

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 Management Console

The Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 component that provides a user interface for configuring and tracking the operation of Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365.

Kaspersky Security Network (KSN)

An infrastructure of cloud services that provides access to the Kaspersky database with constantly updated information about the reputation of files, web resources, and software. Kaspersky Security Network ensures faster responses by Kaspersky applications to threats, improves the performance of some protection components, and reduces the likelihood of false positives.

License term

A time period during which you have access to the application features and rights to use additional services. The services you can use depend on the type of the license.

Malicious Links

Web addresses pointing to malicious resources that distribute malware.

Malware

Programs that are specifically designed to delete, block, modify, or copy data, or to disrupt the performance of computers and/or computer networks. This category includes viruses, worms, Trojans, and other programs used to automatically conduct malicious activity.

Mass mail

Email messages that are generally sent by email marketing services in large numbers by subscription and are not detected as spam. For example, newsletters or marketing emails are detected as mass mail.

Notification

A message with information about an event (or events) that is sent by the application via other notification delivery systems (for example, email) to the specified addresses.

Office 365 Global Administrator account

Administrator role in Office 365 infrastructure. Global Administrator has full access to all administrative features and other administrative roles in Office 365.

On-demand scan

A malware scan that is initiated by the Administrator. The on-demand scan allows you to scan email messages and other email objects that have been registered in specific mailboxes within a specific period of time.

Phishing

A type of internet fraud aimed at obtaining unauthorized access to users' confidential data.

Phishing links

Phishing links lead to fraudulent websites designed to steal the personal data of users, such as bank account details. A phishing attack can be disguised, for example, as a message from your bank with a link to its official website. If you click the link, you are redirected to an exact copy of the bank's website, and the browser might even display the bank website's address. However, you are actually on a spoofed (fake) website. All of your actions on the website are tracked and can be used to steal your personal data.

Quarantine

A hidden folder specially set up in a user mailbox or OneDrive where messages or files containing threats detected in this mailbox or OneDrive are moved to.

Real-time scan

A protection mode whereby all files, email messages and other email objects are scanned automatically in the protected mailbox or OneDrive.

Security policy

A set of processing rules that are applied to email messages and files in the protected company according to the configured settings.

Spam

Unsolicited mass email mailings, most often including advertisements.

Virus

A program that infects other ones, by adding its code to them in order to gain control when infected files are run. This simple definition allows identifying the main action performed by any virus: infection.

Workspace

Virtual Administration Server by Kaspersky that is designed to manage the security of Exchange Online mailboxes, OneDrive users and SharePoint Online sites that are connected to Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365, and to store individual settings of Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 and the registration data of a company using the software.